The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-19
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NEBRASKA.
The Otoe County Fair association will hold
the ffth annual exhibition al Syracuse. Sep.
TENDER 81 to 30. The premium list contains
cores of fat purses for various classes of az.
hibite.
Sidney has organized a company with $780,.
600 capital to locate and work oil and mineral
claims in Wyoming. This makes the fourth
Nebraska company organized to work In that
region.
The prohtbittonists of Platte county held a
convention Friday and nominated a fu,,l
county ticket, also delegates 20 the state pro.
hibftion convention to be held at Lincoln An
gust 16.
Russian Charley and John Flynn, laborers
on the Burlington aud Missouri road twcnty
miles from Fullerton, quarrelled, and later
Flynn stabbed Russian Charley in the back.
killing him instantly.
g.. Schroeder, living on Reimer's ranch near
Fullerton, fell off a wagon while hauling :.
water tank the other day. The wheel passed
over the back and legs, bruising him severely.
out at present. he is doing we'll.
The corn fields of Dodge countr ,a,.
1ooKed better or gave promise of a more
profitable yield. The cereal is too far a1.
vanccd to fear frosts. Oats on bottom lands
yielded fifty bushels to the acre.
l.. d. Mcknight, recently from Cns..r
county, pulled up in Harvard and nut a hn,.
let through It's brain. Lucius was less than
twenty years or age and leaves two wives. nm.
. widow and the other divorced.
The two-year old sou of William VIM. q,
fiastsmouth, who fired his clothes while
s'maRing a ton tire Of his own" died ,f his
'n,uf' les. The little one was terribly burned
and suffered intense pain till death came.
me surveyors OF the Duluth, Watertown
and Pacific are u sight of Huron. saw ,,o
Huronite. '"S
Mitchell defeated Woonsocket at base hal,
the score standing IL to Is. The game was
for 500 a side. ~
The Consolidated Tank Line ompan arr
TO put In a plant at Sioux Falls. Thu cos,
Will he nearly $30. 600.
In Pembina county the commissioners mn,
70 consider the question of ordering an ele,
ton on %localoption, and tut two Of the tv.
members were present.
Monday a 2225-acre field Of wheat v.,
thrashed near Artcsian City, sanborn county
ana tuesday morning u firm shipped the frs,
car ioaa OF new wheat of the season. The
yield will be fifteen or eighteen bushels NO,
acre. Wv
AT Watertown during the absense from
nome OF Col. sheafe and family Saturday ia
Monday, burglars entered the residence and
carried OF everything in the line of silver and
oiste, also Mrs. sheaf's jewelry. No clue to
the thieves.
A Rapid CITY Journal special from Dead.
WOOD says the commission Of T. H. Whftc.
aeputy United States mineral surveyor. has
heen revoked, owing to the fact that be has
used tue office to the detriment Of the m,ptno
Interests Of the Hills.
Several counties have in Republican county
conventions resolved in favor OF compulsor,
education.
Inc MO labor party will hare a conyen.
ventIon at Charlton August 81 to nominate. .
full county ticket.
Ar Anita special says the extra yield of oat,
will do much in that section to covnr n.
shortage of corn.
The Iowa Woman's Suffrage association
holds ITS sixteenth annual convention at DE,
MONIES October 6 and z.
on complaint OF the Presbyterian and Ban
fist clergyhcn considerable beer was se,yad
Saturday at Spirit Lake.
Large quantities of hay are being pressed nj
Corwith, Hancock county. II "a worth "a :.
ton there before being prcssed.l
The county attorney of Lucas county nd
Vises Governor Lsrrabec to offer a reward fo,
tue apprehension of the murderer of the I'm
known man found dead near Lucas, july 90
Council Bulls is to have a scale mannfac
tory, the result of the Interstate commerce,
Law 1" driving the company to locate it's chic
I" . outing Joint nearer the center of 1t,
great western trade.
Inc advance sheets Of the report of the stat,
SUPERINTENDENT of schools, now going through
the press, show 11,62s ungraded or mix,
SCHOOLS IN the tate and 3,2Ol rooms in grade
schools. The average daration Of the scboo
year WINS 7.3 months. Number of male teach
ers 5,9s1; female teachers Is, S4s. The aver
age compensation of male teachers was $3S.
~; female teachers 800. 10. Average cost q
tuition per scholar was $2.1S. Number a
frame school houses, 1887; brick, ss7: stone
327; log, 43.
The new mill at Dodge Center will be 4,
operation in two weeks.
Duluth's new buildings are exceptional,,
fine in architectural design.
Gov. McGill, at the head q of PARTY of n,
venturous explorers, is penetrating the wild,
of the upper Mississippi.
Col. Sheridan, Indian agent at White Earth
says the reports that there is danger of a,
Indian outbreak, are sensational.
There have been so many prize fights AM
things of that kind recently in Mtppeapolf
that the city council has been unable to ge
q quorum for some time.
Albert Lea is considerably excited over tn,
discovery Of natural gas. Gas, 1t is claimed
has been discovered In twenty places, and 4
PUSHES forth with such force as to be heart
fifteen or twenty rods.
As Mrs. William Brey, of Udolpho, wa,
gathering eggs under a granary, ehe was &c
verely bitten on the hand by q rattlesnak,
coiled in the nest. She was taken to Bloom
ing Prairie for medical treatment.
The secretary Of the state board of heal,l
has received notice from the secretary of thu
Minnesota bosrd stating that cases of gland
ers which were trying to evade local authori
ties at Ellsworth. Nfnresota. had mova., int.